Thank you to Danny Callaghan for sending me a
newspaper cutting with a photo of the sort of grocery cart that his Dad
might have remembered from when he started his working life as a
cart laddie with The Store (St Cuthbert's Co-op) in 1922. (See
'The Store, 'Recollections 1'.)

Danny added:

"This picture looks like a mobile shop of
the period.

The assistant is leaning out of the sliding window to serve
the wifie."

Danny Callaghan, Falkirk, Stirlingshire,
Scotland: February 13, 2011

Edinburgh Evening News

This photo appeared in the ''Post Bag' column of the Evening News.
This column featured old photos sent in by
readers. I don't know the date of the newspaper
that published this photo, but the photo is captioned:

'A Co-op. cart of around 1911'l

The letter beside
the photo in the paper was sent from Wardie Road, Edinburgh. It
reads:

"Do any of your readers
regret the demise of the old cart horse, once a common site in our capital
city?

Apart from the
excitement of hanging on to the back of the cart, it was a treat to be
allowed to hold the reins while the horse slaked its thirst at a street
trough.